Private Sphere to World Stage from Austen to Eliot

ISBN-13: 9781138620216 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 224 str.

Elizabeth Sabiston

Opis

The author's discussion of the Anglo-American connections in the factory novels of Elizabeth Gaskell and the slavery writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe has particular relevance for its demonstration of how the move from the private to the public sphere enables and even compels the blurring of national and ethnic boundaries.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction - 'Letters to the world': from private sphere to world stage; Jane Austen's art of fiction: the hidden manifesto in Northanger Abbey and Persuasion; Not carved in stone: women's hearts and women's texts in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre; Cathy's book: the ghost-text in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights; 'The iron of slavery in her heart': the literary relationship of Elizabeth Gaskell and Harriet Beecher Stowe; George Eliot's Daniel Deronda: 'A Daniel come to judgment'; Conclusion - and a new beginning; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Elizabeth Sabiston is Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar (English Department) at York University, Toronto, Canada